SAP FI/CO Experience in Implementation,Configuration, Testing and Support.

       Consultation with the business, provideassistance in identification of business process improvements and also liaisedwith Basis team for processing all transports through clients.

       Analyzed the Business Process Requirements provided by theclient.

       Assisted the Project Lead during the Project PreparationPhase.

       Conducted meetings with users to understand the workflow ofthe As-Is system.

       Analyzed workflow to design the To-Be solution &documented the same in the Business Blueprint Phase.

       Documented the Project Structure & the Process Stepswith information such as the Name of the Process steps along with the textualdescription of their functions, IMG menu paths & Transaction codes.

       Underwent a training to understand the legacy system.

       Contributed towards reframing certain processes andconducted training for the end-users to transfer knowledge about theuser-friendly new system & changes within the same.

       Configured Company Code settings including maintainingCompany code global parameters.

       Customized the Chart of Accounts to incorporate the Existing& New G/L Accounts.

       Created the New G/L Accounts and marked the duplicate /inactive G/L Accounts for deletion.

       Configured the General Ledger Account Groups, Field StatusVariants and groups.

       Assigned Company codes to other components such as Chart ofAccounts, Fiscal Year Variant, Posting Period Variant, Field Status Variantsetc to ensure a proper internal integration within the FI Module.

       Configured Automatic Account Assignment for Cross-companycodes, Materials Management, Sales & Distribution etc.

       Maintained Bank Account Master Data involving configurationof House Banks & Bank Accounts.

       Created different Vendor & Customer Groups andmaintained the Field Status as per the nature of these Groups and assignednumber ranges for the same.

       Configuring FI- GL: Account Groups, GL Master Records,Sample Accounts, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Automatic Account Determination,Inter-Company Automatic Account Posting, Assignment, Number Ranges,Document Types, Tolerance Groups and Business Area Accounting, GR/IR accounts

       Configuring FI-AR: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data,Payment Terms and Interest Calculation, Incoming Payments, Dunning, ARinformation System, Lockbox Process and Closing operations

       Configuring FI-AP: Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data,Automatic payments, Recurring Entries, Invoices, Credit Memos, ClosingProcedures, Creation of Special G/L and linking with reconciliation accounts

       Configuring FI-Asset Accounting: Asset Class, Asset MasterRecord, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Keys

       Responsible for provision of Financial Statements: FinancialClosing of G/L, Assignment of G/L accounts in FSV, Financial Statement Creation

       Configuring Bank Accounting: House Banks, Bank Accounts,Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, PaymentMedia and Automatic Payment Program

       Participated in relevant user community meetings to ensurealignment between processes & technology and identify potential areas ofopportunity

       Responsible for Recommending and configuring solutions witha focus on providing business value  

       Developed, Initiate and Implement process improvements inFinance Processes, such as: Automation of Manual posting during closing period

       Configuring of controlling area with number ranges andcreate cost center group, with cost hierarchy and cost elements includingsecondary cost element, maintain versions

       Configuring of Cost Center Accounting - Creation of costcenter hierarchy and cost center groups, link cost and profit centers, attachwork centers to cost centers, distribution cycle set up – Planned as well asactual, assessment cycles – Planned as well as actual, configuration ofactivity types and plan them on different cost centers, configuration of thesystem for planned and actual activity price calculations, Implementation ofInternal Orders for research and development projects. Create profit centers,with profit hierarchy including dummy profit center. Prepare plans for coststructure i.e. Cost element planning  

       Configuring Asset Management like Asset classes, screenlayout, Depreciation areas, Depreciation Key, Depreciation posting rules andAccount Determinations

       Prepare documentation and provide Go-Live and Postimplementation support

       Responsible for Maintaining global settings - Define andassign the enterprise structure, Define company, areas of business

       Successfully Configured settings for Company code, Fiscalyear variant, Chart of accounts, posting period variant and field statusvariant

       Define Account Groups, Number Rangesand Maintain Field Status Groups

       Create Tolerance Groups for Account Postings, Ledger Accountand Document Entry Process

       Create and test General posting and Parked Documents

       Customize General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivablesand Accounts payable.

       Create Interest calculation and foreign currency postings

       Create Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts for eachbank account and create reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers andassets

       Work on A/P & A/R and configure customer and vendormaster data, local and global data, number ranges, payment types, manual andautomatic payment methods, partial payments, residual payments, discountpayments and also work on issue of credit memos, cleared dues, reclassificationof vendor and costumer accounts

       Set up credit limits for customers and tolerance groups tothe vendors

       Configured Terms of Installment Payment and assign CustomerMaster records.

       Set up Enterprise Structure in controlling area and assigncompany codes

       Create Cost Center Groups under the standard hierarchy,Create Cost Centers including collection cost centers and allocation costcenters, and create secondary cost elements. Set up control parameters foractual posting; allocate characteristics for sender/receiver cost, ConfigureAssessment, distribution and reposting

       Create dummy profit center, Create profit center and Document NumberRanges of PCA, PAsettlement structures and CO-PA planning / profile / layout

       Responsible for identifying gaps, issues, risks anddependencies to ensure accurate planning.

       Responsible for identifying new process, finding out gaps inexisting process, arranging training for new processes.

       Carried out detailed documentation of business and systemrequirements, process flows, and data models

       Created and developed customized Microsoft Access databasesand Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with multi-user access to keep informationcurrent.

       I was responsible for identifying, Analyzing and documentingbusiness process defects.

       I proposed solutions and made recommendations for changingthe existing or new business processes to senior management and externalclients for approval as part of the Business analysis.

       I was involved in coordinating functional and technical analystson the team to ensure that overall project goals are met in line with theexpectation of management for the project deliverables.

       I was closely working with Subject Matter Experts on adhocbasis to gather the information or for some approvals for which the developmentor the configuration already done and which are in UAT testing phase.

       I was also responsible for the analysis and development ofbusiness processes related to operations products / services to secure usage ofthe SAP Best practices.